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post #1 of 20
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Hi guys,

My PC at work keep crashing for absolutley no reason from what I can tell.
There is no certain time as to when it crashes, it is at random. None of the components are under any stress and are overheating as I have checked all the tempretures and even ran stress tests to ensure that all the hardware is working as it should.
I have tested the RAM, CPU and GPU, all of which report back with no problems whatsoever.
I have ran a test on the hard drive using Seagate tools and windows own chkdsk, both of which again report back no errors.

I have tried swapping the RAM into different DIMM slots to make sure the slots work, I have changed the sata cables and changed the ports that they are plugged in to.
I have changed the ports that the PSU cables are plugged into on the actual PSU itself ( didn't explain that very well ) and still crashes.

The event log reports bad sectors in the hard drive but nothing else which confuses me as chkdsk doesn't find anything at all.

I have also tried re-imaging the machine but still nothing, I have re-imaged it four times now.

There are five of us in the office, and four of us all have the exact same PC specs, yet I have the only one that crashes, there are no bios updates either.

My system spec is as follows:

Intel Core i7
8GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia geforce 210
Samsung 1TB HDD
850W PSU
Windows 7 professional 64 bit


has anyone got any ideas?

thanks
Edited by fleXx - 6/1/12 at 6:06am
post #2 of 20
check the power socket and board its plugged into??? also could it be your mates prankings you?
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Nah they would'nt they're too old for that now I would hope lol, and they're all plugged in fine, another problem im facing with now is it crashes on the bios splash screen?
Now sometimes it doesn't and then I can boot but at the minute I cannot log on as it keeps crashing at the slash screen.
post #4 of 20
Check the mini dump, or at least write down the BSOD code next time it happens.
Have you tried to run Memtest+ to scan for ram errors?

Just to exclude the hard drive, unplug it, boot into the BIOS and let the machine run for some hours. If its fine, it might be your HDD.

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post #5 of 20
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Yes I have ran memtest, but only for one pass as I didnt have time to let it run for much longer, ill run it again tonight and let it work through until monday and see if it comes up with any errors then.
When you say let it run for a couple of hours, do you mean litrally just run? or do you mean with some sort of test running?
post #6 of 20
What kind of crashes? BSoD? If so, what hex code? You said nothing is in Event Viewer?


It sounds like a hardware issue rather than a software one.
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I think he meant to just let it run with the bios up simply to see if it blue screens. No test needed. Your just keeping the computer on to figure out if the hard drive might be the cause of it, which it sounds like since you said it reports bad sectors, even though dskchk does not find anything. Can you boot into safe mode and run a hard drive stress test, such as hdtune?
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post #8 of 20
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I sometimes get BSoD's but I think that's due to the crashes I've had in the OS in the first place, those crashes have no error messages or blue screens, the PC just freezes and will not move.
At the minute im trying to re-install windows again, but its crashed yet again at the bios splash screen and even when it gets past it, the disk only gets so far before the system crashes again.
At least I think it crashes it might be just the disk loading at a very very slow pace, but the disk is fine because we have a couple of windows 7 disks and they all do the same thing, just do not load for such a long time that you just give up trying.
post #9 of 20
hhmmm sounds odd how old is the mobo? if everything else seems fine it might be this, do you have openhardwaremonitor.exe ? make sure all your voltages are within the right range, sorry im sorta puzzled here
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post #10 of 20
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About 18 months old so I can't imagine they could break in such a short time period? and i'll check the voltages now, but I don't think it could be those either because the technicians I work with don't touch the voltages for any of the components.
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